India in Pictures

A Bharatiya Janata Party supporter in New Delhi, an elderly man practices Yoga, a boat on Dal Lake, and more.

Updated April 13, 2012 2:45 a.m. ET

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A Bharatiya Janata Party supporter rode through the streets of Delhi with party flags on his motorbike, Thursday. Voting in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi election will begin on April 15. The MCD is the body which provides civic services to the capital.
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A man rowed a boat on Dal Lake in the northern Indian city of Srinagar, Thursday.
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Children walked past the tomb of Mubarak Sayyid, also known as Roja Roji, in Sojali village, near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, March 30.
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Men found guilty in the 2002 Ode massacre reached out to relatives as they were taken away from court in a police vehicle, near Ahmedabad, Thursday. A special court in Gujarat's Anand District sentenced 18 of 23 people convicted massacre, in which 23 people died, to life in prison, while the remaining five were sentenced to seven years in prison.
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A schoolboy ate his free midday meal, which are distributed in primary schools under a government scheme, Srinagar, Thursday.
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Paolo Bosusco, an Italian tour guide who was taken hostage by Maoist rebels, talked to the media upon his arrival at the airport in New Delhi from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, Orissa, Thursday.
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A Kashmiri family drank tea during a break from work in a rice field near Srinagar, Thursday.
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A man's face reflected in a mirror as he worked on gold jewelry in a workshop in Kolkata, Wednesday.
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People moved from Chennai's Marina Beach to higher ground following an alert after Wednesday's earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
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A woman fed mulberry leaves to silkworms in Marh village near the northern Indian city of Jammu, Wednesday.
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A Kashmiri schoolgirl shielded herself from the rain with a scarf as she walked near the northern Indian city of Srinagar, Wednesday.
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Lok Janshakti Party and Muslim candidate, Akila Begum, waved to supporters as she campaigned for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, in New Delhi, Wednesday.
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Reshma Bano, center, waited outside a Bangalore hospital morgue with her relatives for the body of her three-month-old daughter, Neha Afreen, Wednesday. The baby was admitted to hospital earlier this month after allegedly being beaten by her father for being a girl. She succumbed to her injuries, Wednesday.
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Police sprayed dyed water at a group of Kashmiri government employees protesting over pay in the northern Indian city of Srinagar, Tuesday.
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Pakistan Army soldiers searched for their colleagues in Siachen, where an avalanche on Saturday buried more than 100 troops. None of the buried soldiers have been found yet, according to reports.
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A policewoman escorted an activist from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who was demonstrating outside a cricket stadium in Bangalore, Monday.
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A police vehicle leaving a Special Court in Anand, near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Monday. The court convicted 23 people for their roles in the 2002 Ode massacre, in which 23 people were burnt alive by a mob. Another 23 people were let off by the court due to lack of evidence.
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Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, took pictures with his iPhone as Indian minister Kapil Sibal and Qatar's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Khalid Bin Mohammad al-Attiyah shook hands and exchanged documents at a signing ceremony in New Delhi, Monday.
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A fisherman's child swam in a harbor off the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Monday.
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Farmers walked to a market with camels carrying watermelons on the banks of the Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Monday.
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Gardeners worked in flower beds near the northern Indian city of Jammu, Monday.
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Exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala on Tuesday mourned Dhendup Phuntsok, who allegedly jumped from a bridge to his death in Kolkata on April 2 in protest against Chinese rule.
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A rickshaw puller carried plastic balls for sale in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, April 7.
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Christians painted Easter eggs in the northeastern Indian city of Gauhati, Assam, April 7.
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A group of people participated in a 'Yogathon,' a nationwide initiative to create awareness about yoga, in New Delhi, April 7.
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A woman who claims to possess divine powers blew mustard oil into the ear of a two-year-old girl suffering from malnutrition, in Kaudihar, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday.
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Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra performed during a ceremony ahead of an Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket match between Pune Warriors and Kings XI Punjab, in Pune, Sunday.
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Laborers slept on a cart in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, Sunday.
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A hunter from the Tiwa tribe drank water after killing a wild boar in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, Saturday.
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